X Men: Dark Phoenix/ Ma
***Warning, contains spoilers***
So today I saw two films, one was good and one was excellent, although neither will probably make my top ten of 2019. I bet you all think the Super hero movie was the excellent one? Well, read on and find out!
Regular readers of my blog will know I love Super Hero movies, especially Marvel ones. So, after seeing what looked like an epic trailer it was with great delight that I settled down in my cinema seat to watch the latest movie in the X Men universe, Dark Phoenix.
It is well known that Marvel has two major universes, the big universe that features all the characters from the Avengers series of movies and similar films, and the smaller universe where the X Men movies live.
There are really only two types of movies in this universe, movies starring X Men but not always titled X Men, such as Logan, and movies such as Deadpool, which is in the X Men universe but not an X Men movie however there are X Men references in the Deadpool movies and it is linked to those films.
There hasn't been an out and out X Men movie in quite some time, so it was nice to see one. Dark Phoenix is supposed to bring an end to the cast of this movie so I'm assuming the characters in this movie won't be in any further X Men movies that come up.
So, what was it about and what was it like? Well, for what was it about, well the movie is set in 1992 apparently and the story is that the X Men fly into space to help save a team of astronauts who's space shuttle is being ripped apart by some unknown cosmic force.
Most of the rest of this review has spoilers by the way, so they manage to save the astronauts but in doing so Jean is hit by a powerful cosmic ray and her body absorbs the energy of this ray. At first when they get back to Earth everything is fine, but then Jean quickly starts changing.
Jean starts to have angry thoughts which, whenever she gets mad, bad things happen. For example, there is one scene where she makes cars fly up in the air and almost crushes a person's skull just with a wave of her hands. She becomes that powerful that Charles Xavier, brilliantly played as always by James McAvoy, who is one of the greatest actors around at the moment, can't read her mind.
Lots more happen after that and there are loads of incredible action scenes, coupled with a welcome return by Michael Fassbender as Magneto.
It is a good movie, however there are some flaws. Firstly, one of my favourite things about X Men movies are that Jennifer Lawrence who plays Raven is in them. Jennifer Lawrence is stunningly attractive, I would say she is the most attractive female actress in the world right now, and I doubt there is a red blooded male out there who doesn't find her incredibly stunning.
They kill off one of my favourite actresses within the first roughly 30 minutes of the movie! I mean, seriously?! I was gutted!
Also, there are no post credit scenes and I'm sorry, but this is a Marvel movie and post credit scenes are just standard.
Carrying on from that there are too many slow scenes, don't get me wrong, on some Super Hero movies slow scenes work, but here you just don't have the same involvement with the characters you do in say the Avengers series of movies for example.
I think part of this is because there are so many movies starring the Avengers characters so often that you remember them more, whereas movies starring the X Men characters are fewer and further between.
This is a good movie, but it isn't spectacular. However well worth it for X Men and Super Hero movie fans and another good Marvel movie. Well worth a watch, far better than the critics will have you believe, 4 stars awarded.
Right, onto the second movie I saw today, Ma. Ma has lots of more unknown actors in, mainly teenage kids, but it also has the brilliant Octavia Spencer in it, and her performance in the site of movie you wouldn't expect to see her in, it's very different to Hidden Figures, is amazing and she really is the glue that holds this movie together.
This movie is regarded as a horror movie, and it does have horror aspects, but I think it's more of a thriller, however it is incredibly and brilliantly disturbing.
So the story is you have some teenage kids living in a quiet town, and they stand outside the local supermarket asking people walking past if they would buy them booze. One of the teenagers sees a black lady walk past and she agrees to buy it for them.
She also invites them to her house to use her basement to party in. That is very weird for an adult to do that isn't it?
Unfortunately, it turns out that when Ma was a kid the parents of the teenagers were vile to her at school, culminating in a horrible prank where they send her into a dark cupboard to give a blowjob to a guy she likes but it turns out they set her up and it was a different guy in there. How awful is that?
She sees a chance to get her revenge, she stalks all the teenagers on Facebook, she gets all their phone numbers and starts calling them, and when they are there partying in her basement she drugs them all. Awful.
It all ends up in two horribly disturbing end scenes, the first where she drugs one of the dads that treated her that horrible way when she was younger and ties him on the bed and tries to transfer him with blood from a dog.
On top of that she drugs the kids, including one sickening scene where she sews a girls mouth shut, and on top of that she keeps her daughter locked away upstairs convinced she has cancer but really there's nothing wrong with her!
It's disturbing but it's supposed to be disturbing, and the acting is incredible, especially from Ma.
I strongly recommend this movie to all horror/thriller movie fans. Excellent movie, 5 stars awarded. :)
*These reviews are all my own work, please don't reproduce without my permission but please visit my advertisers pages as they help keep the blog going thankyou :)
So today I saw two films, one was good and one was excellent, although neither will probably make my top ten of 2019. I bet you all think the Super hero movie was the excellent one? Well, read on and find out!
Regular readers of my blog will know I love Super Hero movies, especially Marvel ones. So, after seeing what looked like an epic trailer it was with great delight that I settled down in my cinema seat to watch the latest movie in the X Men universe, Dark Phoenix.
It is well known that Marvel has two major universes, the big universe that features all the characters from the Avengers series of movies and similar films, and the smaller universe where the X Men movies live.
There are really only two types of movies in this universe, movies starring X Men but not always titled X Men, such as Logan, and movies such as Deadpool, which is in the X Men universe but not an X Men movie however there are X Men references in the Deadpool movies and it is linked to those films.
There hasn't been an out and out X Men movie in quite some time, so it was nice to see one. Dark Phoenix is supposed to bring an end to the cast of this movie so I'm assuming the characters in this movie won't be in any further X Men movies that come up.
So, what was it about and what was it like? Well, for what was it about, well the movie is set in 1992 apparently and the story is that the X Men fly into space to help save a team of astronauts who's space shuttle is being ripped apart by some unknown cosmic force.
Most of the rest of this review has spoilers by the way, so they manage to save the astronauts but in doing so Jean is hit by a powerful cosmic ray and her body absorbs the energy of this ray. At first when they get back to Earth everything is fine, but then Jean quickly starts changing.
Jean starts to have angry thoughts which, whenever she gets mad, bad things happen. For example, there is one scene where she makes cars fly up in the air and almost crushes a person's skull just with a wave of her hands. She becomes that powerful that Charles Xavier, brilliantly played as always by James McAvoy, who is one of the greatest actors around at the moment, can't read her mind.
Lots more happen after that and there are loads of incredible action scenes, coupled with a welcome return by Michael Fassbender as Magneto.
It is a good movie, however there are some flaws. Firstly, one of my favourite things about X Men movies are that Jennifer Lawrence who plays Raven is in them. Jennifer Lawrence is stunningly attractive, I would say she is the most attractive female actress in the world right now, and I doubt there is a red blooded male out there who doesn't find her incredibly stunning.
They kill off one of my favourite actresses within the first roughly 30 minutes of the movie! I mean, seriously?! I was gutted!
Also, there are no post credit scenes and I'm sorry, but this is a Marvel movie and post credit scenes are just standard.
Carrying on from that there are too many slow scenes, don't get me wrong, on some Super Hero movies slow scenes work, but here you just don't have the same involvement with the characters you do in say the Avengers series of movies for example.
I think part of this is because there are so many movies starring the Avengers characters so often that you remember them more, whereas movies starring the X Men characters are fewer and further between.
This is a good movie, but it isn't spectacular. However well worth it for X Men and Super Hero movie fans and another good Marvel movie. Well worth a watch, far better than the critics will have you believe, 4 stars awarded.
Right, onto the second movie I saw today, Ma. Ma has lots of more unknown actors in, mainly teenage kids, but it also has the brilliant Octavia Spencer in it, and her performance in the site of movie you wouldn't expect to see her in, it's very different to Hidden Figures, is amazing and she really is the glue that holds this movie together.
This movie is regarded as a horror movie, and it does have horror aspects, but I think it's more of a thriller, however it is incredibly and brilliantly disturbing.
So the story is you have some teenage kids living in a quiet town, and they stand outside the local supermarket asking people walking past if they would buy them booze. One of the teenagers sees a black lady walk past and she agrees to buy it for them.
She also invites them to her house to use her basement to party in. That is very weird for an adult to do that isn't it?
Unfortunately, it turns out that when Ma was a kid the parents of the teenagers were vile to her at school, culminating in a horrible prank where they send her into a dark cupboard to give a blowjob to a guy she likes but it turns out they set her up and it was a different guy in there. How awful is that?
She sees a chance to get her revenge, she stalks all the teenagers on Facebook, she gets all their phone numbers and starts calling them, and when they are there partying in her basement she drugs them all. Awful.
It all ends up in two horribly disturbing end scenes, the first where she drugs one of the dads that treated her that horrible way when she was younger and ties him on the bed and tries to transfer him with blood from a dog.
On top of that she drugs the kids, including one sickening scene where she sews a girls mouth shut, and on top of that she keeps her daughter locked away upstairs convinced she has cancer but really there's nothing wrong with her!
It's disturbing but it's supposed to be disturbing, and the acting is incredible, especially from Ma.
I strongly recommend this movie to all horror/thriller movie fans. Excellent movie, 5 stars awarded. :)
*These reviews are all my own work, please don't reproduce without my permission but please visit my advertisers pages as they help keep the blog going thankyou :)
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